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Latest prices for BOOKERS  Fairtrade Products

It's easy to make Fairtrade available to your customers. There are hundreds of Fairtrade teas and coffees to choose from as well as Fairtrade hot chocolate, sugar, breakfast cereal, fruit juice and fruit, all at competitive prices.

You can find all the local supermarkets which stock these products in the Portsmouth Fairtrade guide.

Speak to your existing supplier about Fairtrade foods. You may be able to source from them.  Otherwise, the Out of Home Directory on the Fairtrade Foundation’s website lists nationwide suppliers who are registered with the Fairtrade Foundation to supply the out of home market. You can also request a hard copy on 020 7405 5942

IS FAIRTRADE MORE EXPENSIVE?

Not if you shop around and check out the options:  for example, recent comparisons showed that:

Peros sold 550g of Nescafe at £10.50 and 500g of CafeDirect at £12.95;

however, you could get 500g of Traidcraft instant coffee for £9.25;

Makro sold 500g Nescafe £10.49 but 500g of fairly traded Percol at £8.99.

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS

If you are a cafe or restaurant you can order a Fairtrade Point of Sale Pack which includes tent cards, tissue coasters, window stickers and poster, from your supplier listed in the Out of Home Directory. Peros sell Cafedirect paper cups for £37 per 1000 (8oz size)  http://www.peros.co.uk/ancillary.asp

CafeDirect do their own promotional materials like magnetic wraps:  www.cafedirect.co.uk. Ring Christine Mogg 07739 953046

SUPPLIES
You can get a wide range of Fairtrade products, including sachets suitable for individual use from suppliers like Traidcraft www.traidcraft.co.uk. Traidcraft goods are mainly sold in churches and one-off events but if you’d like to order their catering materials locally, contact Gill Cross gillcross@lineone.net  02392 379341

OTHER SUPPLIERS INCLUDE:

Ace Office Supplies, Bournemouth, tel 01202 240000. email: sales@aceffice.co.uk  [Used by Gosport Borough Council]

3663, [www.3663.co.uk/gen/]  Salisbury Road, Downton, Salisbury. SP5 3HY. 

Tel. 0870 3663 650

Bean Leaf, [www.bean-leaf.co.uk/wholesale/index.php ]

Booker,[ www.booker.co.uk/home.asp]  Tel. 02392 673911 [see end of this section for list of products and some prices ]

Brakes, [ www.brake.co.uk/]

CafeDirect, [www.cafedirect.co.uk/products/index.php] is one of the leading Fairtrade tea and coffee companies.  In Oct. 2005 it opened an on-line store. This NEW Online Shop was set up to help growers in Mexico who were hit by Hurricane Stan. You can see how buying Café Direct helped  them in the aftermath to repair their businesses and homes on www.cafedirect.co.uk/stan

Fine Foods [ www.finefoodsintl.co.uk/products_showcase.htm ]. tel. 020 8549 9371 ; distributes locally

Infinity Foods 67 Norway Street, Portslade, East Sussex, BN41 1AE 01273 424060                     [ www.infinityfoods.co.uk ]

Matthew Algie: [ www.matthewalgie.com/index.html ]

Palmer & Harvey, Fareham, 11 Barnes Wallis Road, Segensworth East. Fareham. Hants.  PO15 5TT; Tel.: (01489) 555800; Fax.: (01489) 555883

PEROS, Unit 3, Lincoln Park Business Centre, Lincoln Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe. Bucks. HP12 3RD,      [ http://www.peros.co.uk/index.asp ]

You can order a Peros down-loadable catalogue on line and products by email from coffee@peros.co.uk  ;   

by tel 01494 436426   or Fax  01494 769545   

 [Peros and 3663 supply Portsmouth City Council]

 To check out Fairtrade vending machines try:

            Freshcafe [ www.freshcafe.co.uk/contactus.html ]

            Bean and Leaf, [ www.bean-leaf.co.uk/index.php ]

            Fairtrade vending, [ www.fairtradevending.co.uk ] 

           CafeDirect, [ www.cafedirect.co.uk/ ]

See the Fairtrade Foundation directory above for more – this is just a selection; more products are being added all the time.

Choose products with the FAIRTRADE Mark

Example of a local supplier:

Booker's latest [Autumn /Winter] FAIRTRADE offerings

  Page revised 13.11.06